Stories by Andre Lowe

Just over a month after the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) abstained from an IAAF vote in Monaco, Olivier Gers, CEO of track and field's global authority, the IAAF, notes that both bodies have put the matter to rest and are...

Usain Bolt joined Michael McCallum as the most successful male athlete in the history of the RJR Sports Foundation National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards, while Elaine Thompson signed off...

Andre Lowe, Special Projects Editor - Sports Triple Olympics 2016 gold medal winner Usain Bolt is the 2016 RJR Sports Foundation National Sportsman of the Year. As expected, Bolt, who sprinted into the history books with first place finishes in the...

Andre Lowe, Special Projects Editor - Sports Rio 2016 standout Elaine Thompson was confirmed as Jamaica's best female sports star in the past year after winning her first RJR Sports Foundation National Sportswoman of the Year award at the...

As a schoolboy at Manchester High Omar McLeod showed promise.A less-hyped member of Jamaica's team to the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France, back in 2011, if not a medal magnet, McLeod, in what was his first real taste of top level...

Veteran netball coach Minneth Reynolds said the time was right for her to step down as head coach for the Sunshine Girls and believes that the current crop of national senior netballers can lift the sport if given the right guidance.Reynolds, who...

Jamaica's track and field authority is trying to silence the noise caused by its folding of the arms at a high-level IAAF meeting in Monaco a few weeks ago, but it appears its representatives in the principality - president Dr Warren Blake and...

The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has moved to assure that its decision not to vote on constitutional changes at the recent IAAF Special Congress in Monaco does not suggest any...

Olympic stars Usain Bolt and Elaine Thompson are expected to lead nominations for the 2016 RJR Sports Foundation National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards, with the selection committee set to make those announcements today.Bolt, who...

Jamaica's swimming flag-bearer Alia Atkinson admitted that her Olympic embarrassment was a major motivator in her three-medal performance at the just-concluded World Short Course Swimming Championships in Windsor, Canada.Atkinson, got a medal of...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco:Olympic champion Omar McLeod described his gold-medal run at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as technically his worst, but he underlined that with Olympic gold now fixed around his neck, his ambition has turned to breaking...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco:A wide range of proposals aimed at changing the way track and field's world governing body, the IAAF, operates was overwhelmingly passed yesterday at a special congress with 95 per cent of the member federations voting in favour...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco:With several of the island's top female sprinters nearing the end of their careers, double sprint champion at this year's Olympic Games, Elaine Thompson, says she feels an added sense of responsibility to continue Jamaica's...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco:He's all about action.In fact, track and field's biggest showman sees a bit of Hollywood tough guy Jason Statham, in himself, and as he capped another all-conquering season with a record sixth IAAF Male Athlete of the Year (AOY)...

LONDON, England:A cold winter's evening was punctuated by some red carpet heat when the fastest man in the world and some of his celebrity friends took London's ever-buzzing West End for Monday night's I Am Bolt world premiere.The movie, which peers...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco:Track and field's global authority, the IAAF, will today hand out awards to the year's top male and female athletes amid a coming together of the sport's hierarchy, which is also expected to bring with it considerable change...

He is a modern marvel and for the first time ever, fans of sprint king Usain Bolt are given a look behind the curtain, with the nine-time Olympic champion's I Am Bolt film delivering a moving and inspiring portrayal of the Jamaican's life.You've...

LONDON, England:Quite accustomed to motoring along throughout his career, track and field's golden boy Usain Bolt took his time as he made his way down the red carpet at last night's London premiere of his biopic, I am Bolt, and he wasn't alone.Bolt...

LONDON, England:Legendary Jamaican sprinter Merlene Ottey says she is looking to return to the sport and believes Usain Bolt is calling time on his career at the end of next season simply because he has had enough of life as a competitive athlete....

LONDON, England:Usain Bolt described last night's premiere of his I Am Bolt documentary as a special accomplishment, and is hoping that the film, which is already receiving positive feedback, will give an insight into the work behind his success.The...

LONDON, England:There aren't too many in the world who know Usain Bolt and his story better than his best friend and manager, Nugent Walker.Bolt's highly anticipated biopic I am Bolt is set to hit theaters today with a premiere at Odeon Leicester...

LONDON, England:He's getting ready to premiere his biopic ahead of what will be his farewell season, but despite Usain Bolt's fast-approaching swansong, training partner Yohan Blake believes the sport will be left in good hands.Bolt's documentary, I...

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's move away from the MVP Track and Field Club has reportedly collapsed after her long-time kit sponsor Nike, according to our sources, threatened to pull the plug on their multimillion-dollar deal.Fraser-Pryce had started her...